Getting new employees on-board with your company

Onboarding is the most important kind of training one can do. While this truth is not universally held, training professionals are finding it to be more and more pertinent to their everyday situations.

Onboarding, the process of acclimating a new hire to your organization, sets the tone for what type of relationship your new hire will have with the business. In reality, it actually goes beyond that. Research by The Association for Talent Development has shown that the majority of hourly employees determine if they will stay with an organization longer than one month during their first week of work, with many actually making the choice to stay or leave on the first day.

In today’s world of transient workforces and social media job postings, the old adage of “hire for life” is getting harder to find and believe in. Companies that want this to be their model for employees need to understand the role that onboarding training plays in having the new hire learn about their environment. This, in turn, helps the organization learn about its new resource as well. Onboarding is indeed a two-way street and this is where many businesses fail to seize the opportunity. Onboarding presents the largest opportunity to learn about a new hire: their talents, ambitions and dislikes. This immediate interest in them as a person helps build a sense of job security that encourages them to buy in or bond with their role and the company.

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